Second International Summer Institute on Network Physiology

The focus of this summer institute is to integrate empirical and theoretical knowledge across disciplines with the aim to understand in different contexts -- from extensive data analyses and modeling approaches to clinical practice -- how diverse physiological systems and subsystems dynamically interact as a network to produce health and disease.

This event follows the inaugural international meeting on Network Physiology, ISINP 2017.

Prof. Plamen Ch. Ivanov gave the keynote opening talk entitled "The New Field of Network Physiology: Redefining Sleep and Wake Through Networks of Organ Interactions", at the 24th Annual Meeting of the German Sleep Society, 2016, Dresden, Germany, 2 Dec. 2016, to an  audience of 2300 medical and clinical specialists and health industry representatives.

Prof. Barry C. Barish, LIGO Lab, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech, and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (2017) for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves, visited our group on April 24th, 2018 to discuss the emerging field of Network Physiology.

Prof. Arkady Pikovsky, Chairman, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Germany, visited our lab and discussed Network Physiology on March 15th, 2018.

Prof. Jörn Dunkel, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visited our lab and discussed Network Physiology on November 28th, 2017.

Prof. Alexander Neiman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Neuroscience Program, Ohio University, visited our lab and gave a talk on "Collective stochastic oscillations and signal detection in tree networks of excitable elements" on November 6th, 2017.

Prof. Louis M. Pecora, head of section for Magnetic Materials and Nonlinear Dynamics in the Materials and Sensors branch, United States Naval Research Laboratory, visited our lab and gave a talk on "How to Synchronize Chaotic Systems" on October 17th, 2017.

Mayu Kamide, Associate Producer, and Yuji Maruyama, Director of Science

and Environment at NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, who work on a new  ``NHK Special'' documentary TV series with focus on the human body, visited our lab to discuss Network Physiology on July 21st, 2016.

Prof.  David Simpson, Head of Human Sciences Group, Engineering and the Environment Department, University of Southampton, UK, visited our group

and gave a talk on "Approaches to cerebral autoregulation: time-variability

and repeatability of the cerebral autoregulation measures" on June 27th, 2016.

Prof. Arthur McDonald, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (2015) for the discovery of neutrino oscillations and for demonstrating that neutrinos have mass, visited our group on April 26th, 2016 

to discuss the emerging field of Network Physiology.

Garcia-Retortillo S, Rizzo R, Wang JWJL, Sitges C, Ivanov PCh. 

Universal spectral profile and dynamic evolution of muscle activation: a hallmark of muscle type and physiological state. [PDF]

Journal of Applied Physiology. 2020; 129(3):419-41.

Lin A, Liu KKL, Bartsch RP, and Ivanov PCh. 

Dynamic network interactions among distinct brain rhythms as a hallmark of physiologic state and function. [PDF]  (Supporting Information [PDF]) 

Nature Communications Biology, 2020; 3: 197. 

Bogdan P, Eke A, and Ivanov Pch.

Editorial: Fractal and Multifractal Facets in the Structure and Dynamics of Physiological Systems and Applications to Homeostatic Control, Disease Diagnosis and Integrated Cyber-Physical Platforms [PDF]

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020; 11: 447

Podobnik B, Korošak D, Klemen MS, Stožer A, Dolenšek J, Rupnik MS, Ivanov PCh, Holme P, and Jusup M.

β Cells Operate Collectively to Help Maintain Glucose Homeostasis, [PDF](Supporting Information [PDF])

Biophysical Journal, 2020; 118: 1-8   

Lombardi F, Gómez-Extremera M, Bernaola-Galván P, Vetrivelan R, Saper CB, Scammell TE, and Ivanov PCh 

Critical dynamics and coupling in bursts of cortical rhythms indicate non-homeostatic mechanism for sleep-stage transitions and dual role of VLPO neurons in both sleep and wake. [PDF] Journal of Neuroscience, 2020, 40(1), pp.171-190.

Wang JWJL, Lombardi F, Zhang X, Anaclet C, and Ivanov PCh. 

Non-equilibrium critical dynamics of bursts in θ and δ rhythms as fundamental characteristic of sleep and wake micro-architecture. [PDF] (Supporting Information [PDF]) PLOS Computational Biology 15(11): e1007268.

dos Santos Lima GZ, Lobao-Soares B, Corso G, Belchior H, Lopes SR, de Lima Prado T, Nascimento G, de França AC, Fontenele-Araújo J, and Ivanov PCh 

Hippocampal and cortical communication around micro-arousals in slow-wave sleep. [PDF] Scientific Reports, 2019, 9(1), p.5876.

Dvir H, Elbaz I, Havlin S, Appelbaum L, Ivanov PCh, and Bartsch RP.     

Neuronal noise as an origin of sleep arousals and its role in sudden infant death syndrome. [PDF]  Science Advances, 2018:Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar6277

Ivanov PCh, Liu KKL, Lin A and Bartsch RP. 

Network Physiology: From Neural Plasticity to Organ Network Interactions.

in "Emergent Complexity from Nonlinearity, in Physics, Engineering and the Life Sciences", [ PDF ] edited by Mantica G, Stoop R, and Stramaglia S. Springer Proceedings in Physics 191. Pages 145-165   Published: 2017 

Ivanov PCh, Liu KKL, and Bartsch RP. 

Focus on the emerging new fields of network physiology and network medicine. [ PDF ]   New Journal of Physics, 2016; 18:100201.